THE PRESS 160 YEARS is a series marking the launch of
The
The Press will revisit stories from every year of publication. By June 1863,
The Press was publishing six days per week. It also began running articles by Samuel Butler, the British author of
Erewhon and
Iliad and the
Odyssey, who was farming in Canterbury. His first piece, “Darwin Among the Machines”, ran on the front page on June 13, 1863, and grappled with the implications of Darwin’s
On the Origin of Species, which had been published only four years earlier. He wrote under the pseudonym Cellarius, a Latin word meaning Butler.
A former English and creative writing professor who lives in Cambridge, England, McCormack broke into print by writing plenty of
DS9 fanfiction. Usually, one has to be an established author to write official media tie-in novels. McCormack, however, was the exception to that rule as her fanfiction gained a lot of notice from Simon & Schuster, which publishes
Trek tie-books.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Prophecy and Change anthology. Next, her novella,
The Lotus Flower, appeared in the
Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Vol. 1 anthology. Her first novel was 2005’s
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Hollow Men, a sequel to one of the TV series’ best episodes, “In the Pale Moonlight,” where Capt. Sisko (Avery Brooks) deceives the Romulans into joining the war against the Dominion.